[m-rev.] for review: Configuration of C# compiler.

[Paul Bone]

On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 12:27:16PM +1100, Peter Ross wrote:
> On 10 January 2013 11:07, Julien Fischer <jfischer at opturion.com> wrote:
> > Hi Paul,
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Paul Bone <paul at bone.id.au> wrote:
> >
> >> The first two patches support better selection fo the C# compiler.
> >>
> >> The third patch fixes a formatting issue in ./configure --help's output.
> >>
> >> If we were using CVS I would normally make this one big patch.  But git
> >> makes it easy to seperate multiple changes that people normally work on at
> >> the same time.  These could be sent in seperate e-mails when sending them
> >> for review.  Do people have a preference?
> >
> > I don't.
> >
> >> From 374605023e2b3a1b33dc82b8f61c334c576d606f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> >> From: Paul Bone <paul at bone.id.au>
> >> Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 15:01:21 +1100
> >> Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Test each mono C# compiler to determine if it can handle generics.
> >> To: Mercury Reviews <mercury-reviews at lists.unimelb.edu.au>
> >>
> >> The 'mcs' compiler on my system cannot handle generics.
> >
> > That seems odd, is there somthing weird about your system or is it just a very
> > old version of mono?
> >
> That is a very old version of mono.  I would recommend updating to a
> more recent version.

It's version 2.6.7-5.1 Note that the gmcs compiler on my system works fine,
which belongs to the same mono version.

I'm running debian stale^H^H^H^H^Hstable, newer versions of debian have
newer packages.  It'd be a good idea to update in the next few weeks.


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Paul Bone
http://www.bone.id.au